eCommerce Today — July 24, 2017: Top things you should know about

Sabir Semerkant
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

By Sabir Semerkant

Top eCommerce things you should know today — July 24, 2017.

  1. Amazon pushes deeper into PLAs. Amazon’s share of Google PLA impressions within the home goods category jumped 15% between late-April and mid-May. [Digital Commerce 360]
  2. What the Decline of the Dollar Means. From eCommerce perspective, the buy side of foreign goods has been a loser (cost more to buy the same goods) while the sell side to foreign countries has been a winner (exchange rate of foreign currency to USD). [NY Times]
  3. Last 10 Years… Stock performance comparison of these retail public companies: Amazon +1,318%, Target -3%, Bed Bath -18%, Macys -34%, Kohls -34%, Staples -44%, JC Penney -93%, Sears -93% [Charlie Bilello on Twitter @charliebilello)
  4. In the B2B eCommerce world, Henry Schein relaunches a medical site in its e-commerce group. Henry Schein Inc. is distributor of more than 120,000 products as well as business management software and services to medical offices, clinics and laboratories. And now it has redesigned e-commerce sites for all of those customers. [Digital Commerce 360]
  5. Your Next Online Order Could Be Picked Out by a Robot. Facing more pressure to speed orders more quickly to customers, a rising number of companies are using high-tech robots in their manufacturing process. But could it render humans obsolete? The WSJ takes a look inside. [WSJ, video 04:27]

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About the Author

Sabir Semerkant is a data-obsessed, Transformative and entrepreneurial Senior Marketing Executive in E-commerce and Digital Marketing offers progressive global experience at growth oriented companies in the consumer goods and e-commerce sector. He is currently the SVP of eCommerce at VaynerMedia working alongside Gary Vaynerchuk and team. He can be found via LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. His articles are posted on Medium.

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